CNAME Record

Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's frequently confused with the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company in case you have created a site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records if you have a Linux web hosting with our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a number of basic steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, and then just click on the Save button. The procedure is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost right away. That way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally just a mouse click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record with ease. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain name to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not require more than three clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you're there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the Control Panel concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.